Haroon Islam

Haroon Islam (died 8 July 2007) was a Lieutenant-Colonel of Pakistan's Special Services Group (SSG) who was killed while in command of the Siege of Lal Masjid.

Biography
Haroon Islam was born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. In 1988, he joined the Sindh Regiment of the Pakistani Army and graduated from the Command and Staff College in Quetta in 1993, joining the Special Services Group (also called the "Black Storks"). Islam's unit of the SSG fought in the Kargil War with India in 1998, and by 2007 he was a Lieutenant-Colonel. That year, Islam was given command of the Siege of Lal Masjid, and he was gunned down by an Islamic student while planting explosives to breach the compound. The shooter was then gunned down in retaliation, and Islam's body was sent to Lahore.